Word: exploited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book makes two broad arguments on behalf of defense attorneys who exploit constitutional violations to clear their clients. The first is the traditional, liberal line: Someone's got to keep government prosecutors honest, by preventing them from, say, introducing unconstitutionally obtained evidence to convict defendants. When government is a lawbreaker, the argument goes, there can be no respect...
...Soviets, meanwhile, are trying to exploit the allied split. Kremlin leaders last week summoned to Moscow executives of European companies that have contracted to supply American-licensed equipment for the pipeline, and threatened them with heavy financial penalties if they do not defy the U.S. ban. The Soviets have also boasted that they are both willing and able to make the equipment themselves, if need be. Western industry sources say this would take two to three years. Televised rallies were staged last week in dozens of Soviet factories, where workers pledged to labor overtime to build the pipeline rotors...
...actual or simulated sex. Books like Show Me!, however, which uses explicit photographs to teach children about sex, might prompt prosecutions. In any event, the court made its point unflinchingly: it is willing to risk excesses of prosecution in order to stamp out the excesses of pornographers who exploit children...
...promises that women "will take on those interests" that defeated the ERA the first time. Lawsuits and boycotts, she says, will be used against insurance companies and other businesses that supposedly overcharge or otherwise exploit women. Also high on the NOW hit list are lawmakers and Governors who opposed the amendment. "Women are in a token position politically," she says. NOW will "not again seriously pursue the ERA until we've made a major dent in changing the composition of Congress as well as the state legislatures" to include more women and "men who are genuinely feminists." The women...
From the start, Staff Photographer Neil Leifer's idea had a nice ring to it. With the film sequel Rocky III scheduled to open at about the same time that the long-awaited heavyweight fight takes place between Gerry Cooney and defending Champion Larry Holmes, Leifer proposed to exploit the coincidence by having Cooney and Actor Sylvester Stallone pose together. Leifer asked Stallone, who lives in Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades, to fly East. Meanwhile, Leifer booked a suite at the Concord Hotel in the Catskills, where Cooney was training. Stallone slipped into the hotel by a back door...